A History of Western Astrology Volume I
The Ancient and Classical Worlds
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Product details:
- Publisher Continuum
- Date of Publication 16 April 2009
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781441127372
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 90
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Long description:
This is the first comprehensive examination of astrology's origins and it examines the foundations of a major feature of popular culture in the contemporary west, one which has its origins in the ancient world. Campion explores the relationship between astrology and religion, magic and science, and explores its use in politics and the arts.
Beginning with the theories of the origins of religion in sun-worship, it spans the period between the first Paleolithic lunar counters around 30,000 BC and the end of the classical world and rise of Christianity. Campion challenges the idea that astrology was invented by the Greeks, and asks whether its origins lie in Near-Eastern religion, or whether it can be considered a decadent Eastern import to the West. He considers the evidence for reverence for the stars in Neolithic culture, Mesopotamian astral divination, Egyptian stellar religion, and examines attitudes to astrology and celestial prophecy in the Bible. He considers such artefacts as the mysterious, 15,000-year-old 'Venus of Lauselle', the reasons for the orientation of the pyramids, the latest theories on Stonehenge as a sacred observatory, Greek theories of the ascent of the soul to the stars and the Roman emporer Nero's use of astrology to persecute his rivals.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chap 1 Distant Echoes: Origins of Astrology
Chap 2 Prehistory: Myths and Megaliths
Chap 3 The Mesopotamian Cosmos:
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
Chap 4 Mesopotamian Astrology:
The Writing of Heaven:
Chap 5 The Assyrians and Persians:
Revolution and Reformation
Chap 6 Egypt: The Kingdom of the Sun
Chap 7 Egypt: The Stars and the Soul
Chap 8 The Hebrews: Prophets and Planets
Chap 9 Greece: Homer, Hesiod and the Heavens
Chap 10 Greece: The Platonic Revolution
Chap 11 The Hellenistic World: The Zodiac
Chap 12 The Hellenistic World: Scepticism and Salvation
Chap 13 Hellenistic Astrology: Signs and Influences:
Chap 14 Rome: the State, the Stars and Subversion
Chap 15 Christianity: A Star out of Jacob
Chap 16 Rome: The Imperial Heaven
Chap 17 Christianity: the Triumph of the Sun
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
